Mr.Wyvern doesn't deal with politics--it is not necessary he should.

That is for men like my husband, who give their lives to the practical work.

Mr.Wyvern confines himself to spiritual teaching.

He would injure his usefulness if he went beyond that.' Letty was awed by the exceeding change which showed itself not only in Adela's ways of thought, but in her very voice and manner of speaking.
The tone was so authoritative, so free from the diffidence which had formerly kept Adela from asserting strongly even her cherished faiths.
She felt, too, that with the maiden hesitancy something else had gone, at all events in a great degree; something that it troubled her to miss; namely, that winning persuasiveness which had been one of the characteristics that made Adela so entirely lovable.

At present Mrs.Mutimer scarcely sought to persuade; she uttered her beliefs as indubitable.